People ask me this question a lot of times after knowing my CET Score, why did I choose mechanical. I could have easily secured admission in EnTC Engineering or even Computer in the spot rounds. So here's why I chose mechanical over other branches and why now I feel it's a huge mistake I made.
I am very much interested to learn a lot of things. I have a lot of interest in supercars, superbikes, planes, spaceships and many other things. Also, in AI, Metaverse and Robotics. I wanted to become an aerospace engineer because I love rockets and spaceships. So, it was a dilemma for me choosing a right branch for engineering. After some thinking, I decided mechanical because I thought I could learn computer science online through courses. But mechanical can't be learnt that way, it's a hands-on activity. Online courses won't help there.
So, I got admitted to COEP Mechanical, because of course, it's so called the best college you can get in the state through CET. I was expecting to have a great learning experience, a lot of practical activities, I would open some engines, learn about machines by handling them. And simultaneously I'll learn coding online. But all crap!
Engineering here is not engineering, it's a rotten system of rote learning and memorizing formulas. Majority of the faculty here has no experience in the industry, hence no practical experience. They don't care what or how you learn, they care about how well you score and how good is your handwriting in the bullshit assignments. I tried to complain about this to the HoD, but got ignored. And in the same semester, 98 students were fail in a subject in mechanical branch, when passing was just 30 out of 100 marks. For other subjects, they gave grace marks just to pass the students and maintain the so called reputation or status which the care most about.
I eventually started loosing interest in this and now I just study to pass exams. Because I don't care of placement.
The 75% attendance is again one more factor eating up a lot of my time. The truth is, state toppers come here, they loose curisity and now they are just in a race of marks. That's it.
And this is why COEP Mechanical is a huge mistake for me!
But there are some upsides, I can now survive under any bullshit enviornment. Nothing can be worse than this. So, it helped me learn. A really good thing about COEP is clubs and fests. I learn a lot from being a part of them. A lot of real world experience. My soft skills improved a lot. I used to enjoy working for a fest/club more than attending boring lectures and completing bullshit assignments.
And don't regret this decision, yeah it was a mistake but it's fine, we are meant to make mistakes. And I can find my way out, I can now learn anything I want and thanks to this education system, I now have unlearnt a lot of things which were not right. And as Steve Jobs said,
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."